The Story Behind Toilets
Title | The Story Behind Toilets PDF eBook |
Author | Elizabeth Raum |
Publisher | Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 2009-01-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781432923501 |
Looks at the origins, history, and technology of toilets.
The Porcelain God
Title | The Porcelain God PDF eBook |
Author | Julie L. Horan |
Publisher | Carol Publishing Corporation |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Horan proposes that civilization began when "deposition on the ground" ended. This is an account of that progress. c. Book News Inc.
How the Toilet Changed History
Title | How the Toilet Changed History PDF eBook |
Author | Laura Perdew |
Publisher | ABDO |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 2015-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1629697729 |
How the Toilet Changed History examines the invention of the toilet and explores how improving sanitation has changed cities and human health. Features include essential facts, a glossary, selected bibliography, websites, source notes, and an index, plus a timeline and maps, charts, and diagrams. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Remaking the John
Title | Remaking the John PDF eBook |
Author | Francesca Davis DiPiazza |
Publisher | Twenty-First Century Books |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2014-08-01 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1467747947 |
Did you know that about 40 percent of the world's population lives without toilets? That's more than two billion people, most of whom live in rural areas or crowded urban slums. And according to the World Health Organization, diseases spread by the lack of basic sanitation kill more people every year than all forms of violence, including war. In particular, diarrheal diseases kill more than two million people each year, most of them children. Everyone needs to go to the bathroom, and from the citizens of the world's earliest human settlements to astronauts living on the International Space Station, the challenge has been the same: how to safely and effectively dispose of human body wastes. Toilet history includes everything from the hunt for the causes of infectious disease to twenty-first-century marvels of engineering. In Remaking the John, you'll explore the many ways people across the globe and through the ages have invented—and reinvented—the toilet. You will learn about everything from ancient Roman sewers to the world's first flush toilets. You'll also find out about the twenty-first-century Reinvent the Toilet Challenge—an engineering contest designed to spur creation of an ecologically friendly, water-saving, inexpensive, and sanitary toilet. And while you're at it, mark World Toilet Day on your calendar. Observed every November 19, this international day of action works to raise awareness about the modern world's many sanitation challenges.
The Grimy, Gross Unusual History of the Toilet
Title | The Grimy, Gross Unusual History of the Toilet PDF eBook |
Author | Nelson Yomtov |
Publisher | Capstone |
Pages | 26 |
Release | 2011-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1429654899 |
"Traces the history of the invention of the toilet, from the earliest attempts of ancient civilizations to the modern flush toilet design"--
Clean and Decent
Title | Clean and Decent PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence Wright |
Publisher | Penguin Global |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Health & Fitness |
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Who would have supposed that the Romans had lagged hot-water pipes? That Queen Elizabeth I had a valve water-closet? That Louis IV had cushions in his bath? This informative and hilarious book leads the reader to believe that more may be learned about the past from bathrooms than from battlefields, and that patterns of social history are mirrored in the bathwater.
The Story of Toilets, Telephones & Other Useful Inventions
Title | The Story of Toilets, Telephones & Other Useful Inventions PDF eBook |
Author | Katie Daynes |
Publisher | Usborne Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Inventions |
ISBN | 9780794528188 |
Toilets and telephones-we all use them, but who invented them? And how did people every cope without them? Read the stories behind these life-changing creations. Then meet the inventors of frozen food, goal nets and other incredibly useful things.